{"product_id":"scarred-a-feminist-journey-through-pain-9781479817092","title":"Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePROSE Award Winner for Biography and Autobiography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamed one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism. Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, \u003ci\u003eScarred\u003c\/i\u003e reframes pain as a \"transnational feminist object,\" something that we can carry across international borders. Drawing on her own experience traveling across twenty countries within just over a year, Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that they might ask themselves, \"How can I live with pain differently?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy using pain as a lens of feminist analysis, \u003ci\u003eScarred\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to chart how power produces and operates through pain, and how pain is embodied and embedded in relationships. Saraswati provides a heartfelt and engaging recount of her experiences while also pushing the boundaries of the respective fields her story engages with. She allows for renewed academic and personal insights to blossom by using a blend of transnational feminist theory, travel studies, and pain studies. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eScarred\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to reframe pain and ask how might we carry it in a more humane, life-sustaining, enchanting, and feminist way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eL. Ayu Saraswati\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexually Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Seeing Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSensing Race in Transnational Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2013 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book prize. She is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651690467602,"sku":"9781479817092","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b20ccbed-b6a5-437a-b14a-33a4c213f136.jpg?v=1733307613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scarred-a-feminist-journey-through-pain-9781479817092","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}